Thread by @caulmick

Three months of scandals...
(part 1 )

❎Teachers from fee paying school get COVID jab from private hospital

❎Almost 50 children with autism affected by secret dossiers

❎Varadkar had hard copy of GP pay deal waiting for him as he stepped off government jet

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❎Stardust inquest into the death of 48 people at a nightclub has been further delayed

❎Central Mental Hospital management allege gardaí assaulted three staff.

❎A festival management company that imported €10m worth of Chinese ventilators for the HSE

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❎More than €192m worth of State contracts were awarded without tendering in a 12-month period

❎Judge investigates 'unusual share trading' in Siteserv sale overseen by Davy

❎Ireland on track to miss taoiseach’s Covid-19 vaccination target for first quarter by over a third

No Consequences - just outrage

❎Nine US military flights overnight in Shannon without Covid checks

❎National Bureau of Criminal Investigation has launched an inquiry into whether former garda commissioner Martin Callinan should face prosecution

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No Consequences ever!

❎The chairwoman of the Oireachtas children’s committee has called on the government to give a deadline for its investigation into a newspaper leak from the report of the inquiry into #MotherAndBabyHomes

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We don't do consequences -

❎Son of Éamon De Valera facilitated illegal adoptions through his medical practice

Nuns chased birth mother for maintenance after adoption

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Cabinet has signed off on a return of bonuses at a bailed out bank for the first time since the global financial crisis, in order for AIB to buy Goodbody Stockbrokers

Government signs off on first bonuses at bailed out bank since crash

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Bank of Ireland ‘using Covid as excuse to close 100 branches’

Bank is to shut 88 outlets in the Republic, reducing its network from 257 to 169, while in the North the network will be reduced by 15 from 28 to 13.

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On January 8th, 39 medical students were on standby to get vaccines. However, surplus vaccines were given to 16 relatives of staff, Prof Deirdre Murphy has told the review.

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People aged 65 are still being forced to sign on for the Jobseeker’s Allowance despite the Government introducing a payment to bridge the State pension gap.

We don't do consequence -

Gardai have recommended no prosecution be taken against RTE staff over alleged breaches of social distancing rules at an impromptu retirement gathering at Montrose last November

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An Garda Síochána’s top fraud unit is still short of up to 50 detective gardaí it has sought as far back as 2018.

Thousands of people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine have had highly personal details exposed in a data breach.

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Thousands who answered HSE’s ‘Be on Call for Ireland’ initiative must apply again for vaccinator roles

Just 330 out of the 75,000 original applicants to the HSE initiative have been recruited to Covid-19-related work roles

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TDs in line for pay rise to push their wages back over €100,000

TDs basic salary of €98,113 will jump to €100,191

Senators’ pay will rise to €70,134 a year

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‘State responsible for Joan Lucey not having her day in court’ says Vicky Phelan

Cervical cancer campaigner pays tribute to retired nurse who died days before mediation due to begin on her lawsuit.

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We don't do consequences -

€7.2bn fraudster David Drumm released early from open prison

DISGRACED ex-banker David Drumm will be able to keep his €4.4 million pension fund - despite owing at least €13 million to creditors.

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Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe sat yesterday with one of the judges he has accused of subjecting him to an “upsetting and traumatic” ordeal following the “golfgate” controversy last year.

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Leo Varadkar has been accused of "abusing the office of the Taoiseach" by using his former position to leak a GP contract document.

Varadkar has said he has contacted gardaí through his solicitors following complaint made.

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CAMPAIGNER Catherine Corless claimed that the report of the #MotherandBabyHomes Commission is biased in favour of the religious orders who ran the institutions.

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The most expensive hospital in the world

BAM claims delay in design of Children’s Hospital facade will cost €45m

'No material change’ in design of hospital exterior, says development board as costs row continues with builder

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Construction workers were busy last week at one of Dublin's most high-profile addresses on a site owned by a trust linked to billionaire Dermot Desmond, despite Covid-19 restrictions closing numerous building sites across Ireland.

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Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae has set up a new company to control his property portfolio.

He is the biggest landlord in the Dáil with more rental properties than any other TD.

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Housing charity Peter McVerry Trust raised €1.6 million through a Government cash-for-residency scheme that has lured more than €820 million in total to the Republic.

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People Over-65 who are waiting for State pension at 66 are being robbed of over €2,000 a year because Fianna Fáil abandoned its election promise and bowed to Fine Gael.

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It is a month since @rodericogorman said he will seek an investigation into how sensitive details in the final report of the #MotherandBabyHomes Commission were leaked.

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The National Children’s Hospital, the most expensive in the world, has now hit the €2,000,000,000 mark.

With completion date pushed out to 2024.

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Hundreds of thousands of people receiving the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (#PUP) are in for a nasty shock if they return to work in 2021 – as they will have to pay all the income tax due on the payment this year

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Private-equity giants in the United States #Apollo and #Lone Star are the final bidders vying to acquire a portfolio of deep-in-arrears AIB home loans that were originally worth about €1 billion...

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Public Accounts Committee sends letter seeking to suspend appointment of Robert Watt to top job in Department of Health.

The PAC is seeking to block his formal appointment to the role with a new annual salary of €292,000

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THE NEW dole payment for the over-65s who are forced to retire before their State pensions kick in will still leave them more than €2,300 out of pocket.

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#INM will not be hit with a fine or other regulatory sanction despite the Data Protection Commission (DPC) making a number of findings against the company in relation a 2014 data breach.

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Taoiseach personally asked senior civil servant Robert Watt to move to Department of Health role, committee to told

Department of Health secretary general will earn more than World Health Organisation director general.

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Charities insist key staff deserve to be paid their value

30 well-known organisations revealed CEO salaries range from €159,800 down to less than €70,000 as the sector continues to recover from a series of scandals.

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Concerns over Dublin City Council paying ‘premium price’ for social housing

A new report suggests the local authority is paying builders €100,000 more per apartment than the going rate in the private market

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Michael Healy-Rae, the Kerry TD, availed of the employment wage subsidy scheme (EWSS) for his Mace convenience store and plant-hire business in Kilgarvan last year.

Like other Mace shops, the store remained open during the pandemic.

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Some KPMG staff working with the Health Service Executive (HSE) have received the Covid-19 vaccine, the consultancy firm has confirmed.

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RTÉ staff were given 21 hours’ notice of ‘impromptu’ event

The reminder, issued in an internal communication more than 21 hours prior, is contrary to RTÉ’s previous claim that the event was an “impromptu” gathering.

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Cuckoo funds now own 15,500 homes in Ireland after latest €1.75bn splurge

Institutional investors are now the main players in the residential property market in much of Dublin for new-build apartments.

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Homeless man broke into Cork pub in order to go to prison

Defence solicitor, Diarmuid Kelleher, said Don Murphy had nowhere to stay and wanted to go to prison.

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The Government’s five month delay in imposing a ban on co-living building may seven of the developments to proceed, say critics

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TDs and Senators have claimed that members of the Oireachtas are believed to be charging their electric vehicles at Leinster House for free - and then claiming mileage to and from Kildare Street.

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Wealth of Irish billionaires increased €3.3bn since beginning of Covid-19 pandemic

Oxfam says it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest people to recover from the financial hit of Covid-19

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SEVEN in ten say €292,000 pay for top civil servant at Department of Health is not justified.

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Ten RTÉ stars paid €9.5m in three years despite station's financial woes.

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Former attorney general Seamus Woulfe will take his first sittings as a Supreme Court judge next month.

Mr Woulfe agreed to delay his ascension to the benches of the court following the fallout from his attendance at the #GolfGate

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GPs set to make €2,500 a day from vaccine scheme or €60 to give two doses.

It will cost the taxpayer €91million.

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The master of the Coombe maternity hospital in Dublin has apologised after it emerged the hospital gave Covid-19 #vaccines to 16 family members of staff.

Two children of Master of hospital understood to be vaccinated

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The children used as guinea pigs - seven vaccine trials and two infant milk trials were carried out on more than 600 babies and young children in the institutions between December 1960 and 1973

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Deal for unusable ventilators went ahead despite red flags

At the time of the contract, Roqu Media International Limited had current assets of just €122 and no trading history, per its 2018 accounts.

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Half of those who arrived home for Xmas refused to say where they were staying

120,000 people flew home for Christmas, with another 20,000 arriving by boat, from December 11th to January 3rd.

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Special advisers to Government ministers' earn over €4.5 million in salaries

The highest earner on the list is the Taoiseach’s adviser Deirdre Gillane €180,276. Varadkar’s adviser Brian Murphy paid a salary of €171,263.

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